spider-like
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See also: spiderlike
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]spider-like (comparative more spider-like, superlative most spider-like)
- Alternative form of spiderlike.
- 1949, John Thomas Howell, Marin Flora, page 103:
- In both forms of this interesting plant, the medium-sized spider-like flowers are closed from morning until late afternoon when they open to attract vespertine insects.
- 1965, J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson, Desert Life, page 31:
- My Squadron Leader's crew adopted a family of jerboas and my Troop Corporals chose a black, spider-like monster, about 3 in. long with short legs and enormous jaws, which they called a "jerrymander".
- 2015 July 25, Federico Coccolini et al., “The open abdomen, indications, management and definitive closure”, in World Journal of Emergency Surgery: WJES[1], volume 10, :
- Another implementation of the system was introduced by the AB-Thera (KCI, San Antonio, TX) with the use of spider-like sponge that allow a better fluid drainage and a better wound contraction and with a reported primary fascia closure rate of 89 % [53, 54].
- 2018 March 7, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian:
- Around 70 different species of trigonotarbids have been recognised, mostly from the Carboniferous period, but some representatives are even older than the Rhynie Chert, pushing the origins of spider-like land animals back into the Silurian Period.